Josep Colom – Moments musicaux (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Josep Colom – Moments musicaux (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:20 minutes | 651 MB | Genre: Classical
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This is a live recording of the recital given by Josep Colom at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid on 10 October 2018. Designed to encourage an original way of listening to music, the programme consists of a linked se- quence of single movements or pieces taken from collections. Together these form an uninterrupted whole that reveals hidden analogies between Schubert and seven other composers: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms and Schoenberg. Josep Colom also revives a once common but now forgotten performing tradition: that of using improvisation to create transitions between fully composed works. His concise extempore interludes lead the listener smoothly from one composition to another, creating a kind of continuum of sound.
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Josep Colom – Música callada (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Josep Colom – Música callada (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:48 minutes | 2,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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Probably the most important Catalan Classical piano work, Frederic Mompou’s Música callada, performed by the most eminent Catalan pianist of our time, Josep Colom.

Mompou’s Música callada is a very special, elusive work of the piano repertoire. Their pieces speak with a minimalist simplicity; as Mompou himself stated: “Its mission is to reach the profound depths of our soul and the hidden domains of the vital force our spirits. This music is silent as if heard from within”. The title refers to a poem by the Spanish mystic St. John of the Cross, who also wrote the “Cantar del alma”, the poem which Mompou set to music and which closes this recording.
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Josep Colom – Late Piano Sonatas – Bagatelles (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Josep Colom - Late Piano Sonatas - Bagatelles (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Download

Josep Colom – Late Piano Sonatas – Bagatelles (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:18:19 minutes | 2,30 GB | Genre: Classical
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Josep Colom’s latest album includes Beethoven’s legendary last three piano sonatas (Opp. 109-111) and Bonn genius’ latest piano work, the Bagatelles op.126. Colom’s original and exceptional vision brings out a fresh and different view on Beethoven’s masterpieces, one which creates a single narrative path to weave together the individual movements of these three sonatas and the six bagatelles by means of a fascinating play of analogies and contrasts. The bagatelles act, in a way, as preludes to the sonatas, with transitional passages that stem from the pianist’s own imagination.
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Josep Colom – B Minor Sonatas (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Josep Colom – B Minor Sonatas (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:22:27 minutes | 2,60 GB | Genre: Classical
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Chopin wrote his Sonata in B minor, op.58 in 1844, the year in which his father died. Like its predecessor, the Sonata in B flat minor, op.35, it is cast in four movements (Allegro maestoso, Scherzo: Molto vivace, Largo and Finale: Presto non tanto), but its structure is rather more conventional and conforms more closely with the canons of the genre than the latter, probably to silence the criticisms sparked by Op.35. As is so often the case in Chopin’s music, moments of heroic writing alternate here with others that are suffused with an Italianate lyricism (listen, for example to the second thematic block of the opening movement or the Largo, which displays many affinities with the composer’s Nocturnes), as well as with numerous filigree passages. The Finale is built on an ostinato which many have interpreted as an ominous galloping, and which has echoes of the last movement of Beethoven’s Sonata, op.31 no.2. Presenting the performer with substantial technical and interpretative challenges, this is one of the finest examples of Chopin’s treatment of large-scale form. …
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Ona Cardona & Josep Colom – Chiaroscuro (Works for clarinet and piano) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ona Cardona & Josep Colom – Chiaroscuro (Works for clarinet and piano) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:18 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
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Clarinetist Ona Cardona and pianist Josep Colom join forces on this recording, performing Brahms’ late masterpieces, the clarinet sonatas op. 120. Superb performances of both sonatas that framed Robert Schumann’s Fantasiest”ucke, op. 73 and a wonderful arrangement for clarinet and piano of Clara Schumann’s largely neglected Romanzen, op. 22.

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